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What the Future Holds: Shifting Perceptions of Israel on the World's Stage?

November 29, 2005 - Jerusalem Post Correspondent Herb Keinon was the featured speaker at this community event

Herb Keinon - Jerusalem Post Corresponent

On Tuesday, November 29th, 2005, American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Milwaukee Jewish Council for Community Relations (MJCCR) & Congregation Sinai sponsored an evening with:

Herb Keinon, Diplomatic Correspondent for the Jerusalem Post

What the Future Holds:
Shifting Perceptions of Israel on the World's Stage?

The event was held at Congregation Sinai in Milwaukee

Herb Keinon is the diplomatic correspondent for the Jerusalem Post. Keinon has been at the Post for the last 20 years. During this time he has covered a wide variety of different beats, including Jerusalem, immigration and absorption, religious parties, haredim, and the settlements. He has also been a featured writer and weekly columnist at the paper.

Keinon took over the diplomatic beat in August 2000, just after the failed Camp David summit, and just before the start of the current violence.

Keinon is responsible for covering the prime minister and the foreign minister, often traveling with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on his trips abroad. As such, Keinon has up-close knowledge and an intimate perspective of the current confrontation and the various diplomatic attempts at solving it.

In addition, Keinon appears frequently on a variety of radio and television
programs in the US, Canada, and Europe as a guest commentator on the situation in Israel. He has also lectured widely both in Israel and the US on the subject.

Keinon, originally from Denver, has a BA in political science from the
University of Colorado, Boulder, and an MA in journalism from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

He has lived in Israel for 24 years, currently in Ma'ale Adumim just outside Jerusalem, is married with four children.